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# Restrict allowed SSH key technologies and minimum length (SELF)
# Restrict allowed SSH key technologies and minimum length **(SELF)**
`ssh-keygen` allows users to create RSA keys with as few as 768 bits, which
falls well below recommendations from certain standards groups (such as the US
